Im bleeding!! FROM MY EYES!!

[d3structor]

Perspective change, have it so that your character is having trouble holding their head up and their vision starts blurring, maybe have whatever is on the HUD shift slightly to accompany the mentioned head-tilt

 

[Enemy Of The State]

Jam is often accompanied by heavy breathing and/or loud heartbeat. Both of those could work.

 

[Audio]

The old Doom mug shot at the bottom was good enough

you could see how damaged you are without having to look at the value but if you really wanted to know exactly how hurt you where, the percentage was there.

suppose 'realistic' shooters like to show that you are dying but unless it's part of a cinematic, it's bollocks

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

Brütal Legend does something interesting on your units health. The only way to see their health is look directly at your unit. If he is slightly wounded there will be a few cuts on him. Near death, then he's splattered with blood. Damaged vehicles are smoking while nearly destroyed ones are burning.

The same applies to you but you do get a red pulsating GTFO screen when very near death.

Gears of War sucks in this departement, the red fills up the center of the screen so you can't tell whats going on. I'd say Mass Effect 2 does it right with a very small health indicator in the bottom of the screen. But then you get wounded and red jam fills up everywhere yet again.

IIRC in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune the color starts to wash out as you get wounded and when near death everything is black and white. That works for me.

 

[standokan]

It really annoys the hell out of me too but on the other side, its as realistic as getting hurt in a game gets.

 

[kettlefirer]

I'd like the Gears of War idea if it didnt sit in the middle of the screen, where most of the enemies are. Still it makes you get in cover quicker because there is no point shooting things you can't even see.

 

[Something Amyss]

I like the rasberry jam all over the screen thing. It's visceral.

Only one man would DARE give me the raspberry....

LONESTAR!

 

[Sacman]

Health Meters.

There is nothing wrong with them, and they're accurate.

Calumon: A health meter shaped like a heart?

Um, health meter?

Eh, beaten.

Here's a crazy thought...but having health bars again!

The point of this is that most FPS today have done away with health meters, I like health meters as much as the next guy, but in fast paced FPS games, regenerating health is probably a better idea, this thread is about putting a spin to it

than how about having a health bar, that's an actual bar, that's the important part, that goes down when you get damaged and goes up when your regenerating...<.<

 

[Sarah Frazier]

For the player, the screen should darken at the corners as their condition gets more critical. Limping and weaving if the kegs get shot, wobbling weapons as the arms get hit, but also heightened senses and damage reduction as you get more desperate to at least wound your shooters before they can finish you off.

As for what people would see by looking, small damage would be just nicks and cuts while more serious damage would be chunks of flesh missing, large blood stains on clothes/armor, and twisted limbs when they're finally crippled completely.

 

[Vykrel]

it doesnt bother me very much, as long as they dont go too far.

like MW2, the jelly on the screen makes it difficult to see, sometimes. and in Killzone 2, the discoloration approach they took makes it so that it becomes so dark that you cant see anything.

futuristic FPS titles can always take the Halo approach and have helmets with visors and HUD's.

i really have no preference for either health bars or the more visceral choice of blood spatter or blurred vision, whatever.

 

[Mr Shrike]

Why not just die/get dropped in one hit...?

Simples! (And frustrating!)

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Hazy vision o.o

Periodic blacking out (screen grows dark, then becomes violently bright so it becomes hard to see targets in the distance, or rapid motion).

Groans ...

Having to constantly wipe your hand of seeping blood whilst holding the gun ....

Decreased movement speed.

Shortness of breath/laboured breathing

Reduced reaction times (represented by increased reticle 'realignment' times)

Blurred vision when turning corners and moving.

Periodic radial migraine pain (represented by shimmers of light and high pitched whirring)

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Many ways to show a soldier in a continually degrading condition.

 

[Talpidae]

The one above seems the best idea so far. I'd thought about the screen darkening thing, but the rest are also very interesting ideas.

 

[Khada]

I'm against anything that effects a players ability to react. Otherwise it becomes a game of who sees who first.

Nothing wrong with audio.

 

[Reaper195]

Body Armour starting at one hundred percent, takes damage depending on what weapon used, and you can pick up better/worse armour off fallen enemies. Once that is gone, you take three shots before you die. Exactly three. Unless you get hit in the head.

Failing that, health bars. They were used for a long time for a damn good reason. Even health bars that refill after a few seconds...just stay the fuck off my screen so I can shoot at the **** who is shooting me first!

 

[TiefBlau]

I liked it better when it was just red on the screen and not actual blood in the eyes of someone who clearly isn't wearing anything on his face. It's weird, creepy and irritating.

 

[SovietX]

Health Bars.

I love them.
So much.

 

[gl1koz3]

Yes, bring the health bars back. Also, some vision effect couldn't hurt it. I like how the screen goes black&white when the player is close to death (EDIT in L4D2. It doesn't make it that impossible, but sometimes you miss details because of it and die.

 

[gibboss28]

Health Meters.

There is nothing wrong with them, and they're accurate.

Calumon: A health meter shaped like a heart?

Um, health meter?

Eh, beaten.

Here's a crazy thought...but having health bars again!

The point of this is that most FPS today have done away with health meters, I like health meters as much as the next guy, but in fast paced FPS games, regenerating health is probably a better idea, this thread is about putting a spin to it

I disagree, the health bar worked brilliantly in Unreal Tournament and tbh I still consider the UT games to be a lot more fast paced than most other modern fps games (This isn't including Gears of Tournament 3 though, that one was just terrible)